DrunkonDuty
he/him
Yeah, but that's a good thing. ;-)
D&D 5E Which common monsters/creature types do you exclude from your campaigns?
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Yeah, but that's a good thing. ;-)
doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
How? Have you played GURPS? It’s exponentially more tightly codified and complex than what I just described. DMs have been making homebrew races since the only DM was Gygax. It’s an extremely normal thing to do.
Also your reply makes no linguistic sense. There was no statement or question that makes “because XYZ” a rational reply, so I'm just kind of assuming the general gist of what you meant, but I can’t be sure, because it isn’t a sensible statement.
I’m still not seeing the issue tbh. They live in family groups and communicate amongst themselves. They don’t need a complex social order to do that.
The fact they all somehow speak the same unique language is no stranger for them than for every other race in D&D, and no harder to just change or ignore.
My players are currently trying to repair rips in the "Veil" and thwart the emergence of Shothragot.
Due to planar instabilities, they encountered a border/gate to limbo. Grell were flying out of the area into the campaign world, running as advance scouts for a gigantic flying grell whale.
As they approached the area, they saw flumpths hovering over the still forms of a band of rokie adventurers they were trying to find. Not being familiar with flumpths, they though they were grell, and attacked. The flumpths were healing the rookies, but retreated into the distance when half there number had been slain.
The players realized the mistake when one of the rookies came to and began to babble about white puffy angels with long flowing ribbons.
Then the actual grell attacked.
Several spherical objects of brass and golden astral energy arrived and began to observe the fight. Shortly several similar cubes arrived and began force beam healing the rift between worlds.
As the grell whale began to emerge, many of the cubes formed together to make a greater cube, which combated the grell whale.
But the huge cube, the other cubes, and the spheres seemed to be precariously balanced* against the grell forces, and only the actions of the players would decide the fate of the battle.
The adventurers came up with good plans and defeated the ground based grell. They then tried to communicate with the cubes and spheres, eventually having enough success that about 4 of the spheres flattened into one man flying discs the characters could stand and fly on.
As the last modron fell in battle, the Grell forces had been defeated by the actions of the characters, the remaining non-combat cubes sealed the rift, and the players rejoiced.
Multiple cubes and spheres merged to form a dodecahedron , which rewarded the characters with rare metals equal to 3,140 gold pieces (hehe).
BUT YOU GUYS DONT WANT FLUMPHS, GRELL or MODRONS DO YAH????
Party poopers... (j/k)
* a perfectly balance encounter by the modrons viewpoint, very efficient...hehe..
Due to planar instabilities, they encountered a border/gate to limbo. Grell were flying out of the area into the campaign world, running as advance scouts for a gigantic flying grell whale.
As they approached the area, they saw flumpths hovering over the still forms of a band of rokie adventurers they were trying to find. Not being familiar with flumpths, they though they were grell, and attacked. The flumpths were healing the rookies, but retreated into the distance when half there number had been slain.
The players realized the mistake when one of the rookies came to and began to babble about white puffy angels with long flowing ribbons.
Then the actual grell attacked.
Several spherical objects of brass and golden astral energy arrived and began to observe the fight. Shortly several similar cubes arrived and began force beam healing the rift between worlds.
As the grell whale began to emerge, many of the cubes formed together to make a greater cube, which combated the grell whale.
But the huge cube, the other cubes, and the spheres seemed to be precariously balanced* against the grell forces, and only the actions of the players would decide the fate of the battle.
The adventurers came up with good plans and defeated the ground based grell. They then tried to communicate with the cubes and spheres, eventually having enough success that about 4 of the spheres flattened into one man flying discs the characters could stand and fly on.
As the last modron fell in battle, the Grell forces had been defeated by the actions of the characters, the remaining non-combat cubes sealed the rift, and the players rejoiced.
Multiple cubes and spheres merged to form a dodecahedron , which rewarded the characters with rare metals equal to 3,140 gold pieces (hehe).
BUT YOU GUYS DONT WANT FLUMPHS, GRELL or MODRONS DO YAH????
Party poopers... (j/k)
* a perfectly balance encounter by the modrons viewpoint, very efficient...hehe..
grimslade
Krampus ate my d20s
No, no I like grell, particularly intelligent space pirate grell in Spelljammer. I stand by my disdain of the fart powered jellyfish and the 'use dice as a monster of cosmic order'.BUT YOU GUYS DONT WANT FLUMPHS, GRELL or MODRONS DO YAH????
Party poopers... (j/k)
delericho
Legend
Funnily enough, I'm working on a campaign intended for September, and "dragonborn, dinosaurs, and guns" wouldn't be a bad elevator pitch for it.
Vaalingrade
Legend
Dinoriders with dragonfolk? Let's do this.Funnily enough, I'm working on a campaign intended for September, and "dragonborn, dinosaurs, and guns" wouldn't be a bad elevator pitch for it.
Though I will admit I don't use dragonborn because they are insufficiently dragony.
Voadam
Legend
Swap out confederate space cowboy colonists for dragonborn and Broncosaurus Rex comes to mind.Funnily enough, I'm working on a campaign intended for September, and "dragonborn, dinosaurs, and guns" wouldn't be a bad elevator pitch for it.
That doesnt look like a gun though
el-remmen
Moderator Emeritus
I have used all three (when thematically appropriate).
deganawida
Hero
No orcs. What started as a different name for goblins in LotR quickly became an entire species by itself, and I find it both redundant and annoying. Goblins have much more mythological and folkloric cache than orcs, plus more variety. I still like having my folkore-inspired goblins lean towards evil/chaos but having players run into neutral or sometimes good ones.
Wait, I just thought of one instance where I'll use orcs: When they are the pig-face creatures of old D&D and look like the Gammoran guards from Return of the Jedi. That's different enough for me to use them (and is pretty cool IMO).
Wait, I just thought of one instance where I'll use orcs: When they are the pig-face creatures of old D&D and look like the Gammoran guards from Return of the Jedi. That's different enough for me to use them (and is pretty cool IMO).
Voadam
Legend
Look again. Holstered on the hip.That doesnt look like a gun though
Here is a better resolution of the cover.
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Very well. Still its very vague and could be anything. It would be more clear if he was waving a gun and had the sword on the side.Look again. Holstered on the hip.
grimslade
Krampus ate my d20s
I was thinking about orcs and their evolution throughout D&D. We went from pig faced to neanderthalesque.
From this:
To this:
Why didn't we go to this:
I know Warhammer greenskins and Warcraft pushed D&D along the bestial man path, but boar men are just so much more fun and are not confused as an offshoot of goblins.
From this:
To this:
Why didn't we go to this:
I know Warhammer greenskins and Warcraft pushed D&D along the bestial man path, but boar men are just so much more fun and are not confused as an offshoot of goblins.
Stoutstien
lunk
Just went through all my homebrewed content (40 different campaigns in 11 settings) and I only found one actual dragon so I guess that is one I exclude lol.
Why did I buy fizban...oh the elder brain dragon that's right....
Why did I buy fizban...oh the elder brain dragon that's right....
Larnievc
Adventurer
To be fair you could be using them and might not know it.
Blue Orange
Gone to Texas
Wow, neat! Do you have anyone for earth, water, or fire?
(The chinese five elements/phases were wood, fire, earth, metal, and water.)
Laurefindel
Legend
Same here. I always reserve dragons for the big bad, or a really meaningful encounter… I might have use one, once…
Stoutstien
lunk
They are just to on the nose for me I think. I love a good true to trope concept but dragons are so blah. The eberron take isn't bad for them as a theme though.
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